28.5194, Books: A grammar of Mundabli: Voll

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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:00:26
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: A grammar of Mundabli: Voll

 


Title: A grammar of Mundabli 
Subtitle: a Southern Bantoid (Yemne-Kimbi) language of Cameroon 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/a-grammar-of-mundabli-a-southern-bantoid-yemne-kimbi-language-of-cameroon 


Author: Rebecca Voll

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932540 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

This book is the first description of Mundabli, a Southern Bantoid
(Niger-Congo) language spoken by 350-450 speakers in Northwest Cameroon.
Mundabli is part of Southern Bantoid, but its exact genetic affiliation is
unclear. The current description presents novel data, which will help to throw
light on the genetic affiliation of Mundabli andother unclassified languages
in the area.

Mundabli has four level tones plus a number of contour tones. Its phonology is
further characterized by a complicated vowel system including a set of
pharyngealized vowels. Its noun class systemis similarly elaborate as those of
Bantu languages. However, nouns often have no class marker. Some
singular-plural class pairings are instead marked by stem-initial consonant
mutation or by tonal changes. Agreement is restricted to the noun phrase.
Verbs belong to one of three inflectional classes. Verb tones vary, with all
verbs of the same inflectional class displaying the same tone in a given
context. Mundabli makes use of two future tenses and four non-future tenses.
Its unmarked word order is SVO, but word order variations are possible.

As a description of a Bantoid language of unclear exact genetic affiliation,
this book is of particular interest to Bantoid and Niger-Congo scholars.
Presenting novel data from a formerly undocumented language and describing
rare linguistic phenomena, such as pharyngealization and an unusual relative
clause structure, this grammar is also of interest to scholars in linguistic
typology and theoretical linguistics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Mundabli (boe)


Written In: English  (eng)

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